“...and then you discover that you can break yourself in a way that can't be fixed...” — Prabhakar Tripathi Copy Share Image
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)” — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“I don't feel sad because of the sins that I've committed but because of those which I'm about to commit.” — Rishi Bakshi Copy Share Image
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
“A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to… — Andy Chambers Copy Share Image
“After a good roll in the hay, when he’s all peaceful and serene and he hasn’t a worry or a care in… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true… — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard Copy Share Image
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
“She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As his inner masochist came to bloom against the door of Cooper’s trailer, Chenco felt like he’d pulled his chest cavity wide… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The difference between lay and lie is like the difference between sadism and masochism: one means doing something to someone (or something)… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
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